Quotes About Restriction

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

Cities and counties in the North and West passed racial zoning laws, banning blacks from the middle-class communities. In 1890, in Montana, blacks lived in all fifty-six counties in the state; by 1930, they'd been confined to just eleven.

the restriction of speech by social media platforms was not yet a well-known phenomenon.

The federal government is looking for one obstacle after another to place hurdles before this industry," Nelson warned. "Pretty soon it's going to be air. They're going to say you can't use the air because it belongs to the federal government. It's just ridiculous.

It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.

Insulated from natural contacts with earth, air and sunlight, by corsets pressing on the solar plexus, by voluminous petticoats, cotton stockings and kid boots, the drowsy well-fed girls lounging in the shade were no more a part of their environment than figures in a photograph album, arbitrarily posed against a backcloth of cork rocks and cardboard trees.

I think there may be some kind of law about a woman buying more than she can carry.

Some people hate the smell of hospitals. I hate the smell of jails and prisons, all the same: stale cigarette smoke, Pine-Sol, urine, sweat, and dust.

In this country any kind of printing was forbidden unless authorised.

Yet though there is no visible barrier I know only too well that I am surrounded by unseen and impassable walls which tower into the highest domes of the zenith and sink many miles below the surface of the earth.

A diet is the penalty we pay for exceeding the feed limit.

Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break

I've never had to make weight for any sport before. Because, get this, I was not allowed to do any sports in school because I was a professional athlete. I was doing wrestling at the age of 15, so the school districts and the board of directors said that because I was a professional athlete that I couldn't do anything.

Many companies restrict Internet activity so heavily that it makes it difficult for people to do online research. The most obvious example? Checking the Facebook profile of someone you just interviewed.

Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

Sequestration, sequestation - however you pronounce that word - and gridlock aren't all that bad.

Because North Korea was so totally cut off, we didn't hear anything of the outside world. We had only one TV channel, which showed only propaganda, and we believed everything.

With a corset on, you can't breathe properly.

I think, in big-budget movies where everything seems so poured over and restricted and the studio wants to examine every frame to make sure it's vetted properly, you lose a little bit of playfulness.

Henry VIII Clauses allowing the Government to change almost any law of the land by statutory instrument, if needed, to implement Brexit must be properly restricted.

Banning sports is a ludicrous proposition.

I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.

Sou definitivamente contra o definido, porque o definido é o bastante e o bastante não basta.